Materialize Tutorial on Materialize Icons
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materialize supports the following popular icon libraries −

  • font awesome icons
  • google material icons
  • bootstrap icons

usage

to use an icon, put the name of the icon in the class of an html <i> element. to control the size of an icon, you can use the following classes −

sr.no. class name & description
1

tiny

draws an icon of very small size. 1rem.
2

small

draws an icon of small size. 2rem
3

medium

draws an icon of medium size. 4rem.
4

large

draws an icon of large size. 6rem.

example

<html>
   <head>
      <title>the materialize icons example</title>
         <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=material+icons">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/css/materialize.min.css">
         <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
         <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/js/materialize.min.js"></script>
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css">
   </head>
   <body class="container">
      <h2>icons demo</h2>
      <hr/>
      <h3>font awesome icon demo</h3>
      <i class="fa fa-cloud tiny"></i>
      <i class="fa fa-cloud"></i>
      <i class="fa fa-cloud small"></i>
      <i class="fa fa-cloud medium"></i>
      <i class="fa fa-cloud large"></i>
      <h3>google material design icon demo</h3>
      <i class="material-icons tiny">cloud</i>
      <i class="material-icons small">cloud</i>
      <i class="material-icons">cloud</i>
      <i class="material-icons medium">cloud</i>
      <i class="material-icons large">cloud</i>
      <h3>bootstrap icon demo</h3>
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud tiny"></i>
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud"></i>
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud small"></i>
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud medium"></i>
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud large"></i>
   </body>
</html>

result

verify the result.

icons demo
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